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Story summary
- Google shut down Europe-west2 data-centre computers in the United Kingdom in July 2022 because of a cooling failure.
- The outage disrupted numerous Google services across the region.
- Google shut down thousands of machines to prevent fire or heat damage during the failure.
- Google launched a global review of data-centre cooling systems after the incident.
- Google says today’s outage stems from a power event, not cooling problems.